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FIDE Women’s Grand Prix Nur-Sultan 2022 starts tomorrow

The first event of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2022/2023 series will take place from 17-30 September 2022 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. A very strong line-up is headlined by World No. 2 Aleksandra Goryachkina and includes Katerina LagnoTan ZhongyiAlexandra KosteniukPolina ShuvalovaAlina KashlinskayaZhansaya AbdumalikElisabeth PaehtzZhu JinerBibisara AssaubayevaDinara Wagner and Vaishali R who replaced Koneru Humpy.

FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2022-2023: All information / Final list of participants and players allocation

The Opening ceremony of the event will take place at Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), starting at 19:00 local time (15:00 CEST). The tournament will kick off with the first round tomorrow, September 18, at 15:00 local time (11:00 CEST) and the pairings of the first round are:
Goryachkina Aleksandra 2579 (FID) – Shuvalova Polina 2510 (FID)
Lagno Kateryna 2547 (FID) – Vaishali R 2449 (IND)
Kashlinskaya Alina 2491 (POL) – Kosteniuk Alexandra 2521 (FID)
Assaubayeva Bibisara 2443 (KAZ) – Abdumalik Zhansaya 2503 (KAZ)
Tan Zhongyi 2525 (CHN) – Zhu Jiner 2464 (CHN)
Wagner Dinara 2358 (GER) – Paehtz Elisabeth 2477 (GER)


Pairings of all rounds and the timetable of the event can be found here.

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